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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by William Biggerstaff
William Biggerstaff
303 Points

Do While Loop exercise, Please help, have made progress

Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Example.java 
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
do {
  response;
  }
while (response);

1 Answer

Mark Sebeck
MOD
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 38,297 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 38,297 Points

Hi William. Couple of things. While (response) is not valid. response is not a boolean. You need to compare something. Since you want to run the loop while response is No something like (response == "No")should work.

Also inside you loop response is not a valid statement. It is just the value of the answer the user typed. It will not re-prompt the user for an answer. you need to have 

response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");

inside your loop. While leaving the first statement will work if you want your code to be DRYer then just declare the response variable outside the loop (String response;) since you are prompting the user inside the loop and it will always prompt the user before checking the while condition.

Hope this helps william and keep at it!